The Visitor

The Visitor

2008 · 105 min · FI · 6.2 (20 votes)
Dir. J-P Valkeapää · Starring Pavel Liška, Vitali Bobrov, Jorma Tommila, Emilia Ikäheimo, Pauli Poranen, Lauri-Kare Laos · Music Helena Tulve
Drama

A young boy lives with his mother on a farm surrounded by deep forest in the remote wilds of the Finnish countryside. From time to time, the boy visits his father - a man of great violence - in prison. Locked in the stable is an unruly horse, the boy´s only other companion. Their simple life is disrupted when a stranger appears, with a note from the father and a bullet in his side. Reluctantly, mother and son offer the stranger refuge.

farmcountrysideprison cellsymbolismhorsecrowforestrural areamutestrangerchildhoodkidswounded horse